Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Niagara: Kingdom of Corruption

Long before we had our sparkling new Burgoyne high
level bridge connecting East and West St. Paul Street in St. Catharines,
Ontario, 'News Alert Niagara' sounded the Alarmas to the seriously deteriorating condition of the valiant century
old former structure.

People were gratified with the announcement that the bridge
replacement would be moved up by 7 years.

Niagara Citizens were stunned to discover how the
price of the new bridge spiraled out of control to the tune of $tens of millions
driving the price from $59Million to over $100Million!

Along comes 2016 and we are treated to ridiculous bovine waste of ‘those in
control at the time are no longer with our 'regional government' so we’ll just
have to make sure it doesn’t happen again!’

Our response to this dismissive rhetoric was ‘BULLSHIT’! Anyone that has had anything to do with these
gargantuan losses need to be dragged back, identified and held accountable! Find out who is responsible for lost documents!

It’s bad enough when you have a cock-up
of $hundreds or even $thousands but when the losses range into $TENS OF
MILLIONS the question must be raised: where the hell is the outrage?

To date we have the regime’s task
force's internal probe, a value-for-money audit and a forensic audit. There is
also an Ontario Provincial Police investigation.

Really?

Did they do a personal forensic audit
on those in control or is that reserved for non-government people? Is there any
chance that unaccountable $Millions would be overlooked if those in charge were
not regime personnel?

NOT HARDLY!

Now years later we have the so-called ‘task force’ calling for an investigation into the investigation! They are also calling on the City of St. Catharines for help with the missing records. The city politicians are more interested in their own political persona than they are in the missing $Millions of taxpayer dollars.

So, 'News Alert Niagara' braved another personal appearance to the first Regional Regime Council meeting following the Standard's report to witness what should have been an explosion of concern for missing and unaccounted $millions of taxpayer money! Sorry but Nothing!

They did mention that the Audit Committee would
be meeting at 9:30 AM Monday so we stalled the posting of this article to
report on the explosion of concern that would surely occur.

Nope Notta, zip, zilch!

However, all was not
lost! Following the audit report the councilors did show concern regarding
municipalities exceeding their debt limit and who would suffer the burden in
case of a default as pointed out at the 57 Minute Mark.

So once again we are being told to let
bygones be bygones predicated on $Tens of millions of hard earned tax dollars unaccounted for but fear not because "we have better oversight now"!

Sadly, it appears that there are several
suspected projects with more unaccounted $Millions. In fact, there are many
projects of questionable necessity other than to be used for fleecing the
taxpayer.

To put it succinctly the regime’s
proffered excuses are pathetic!

This silent Council is in charge and this silent council failed
in its duty to safe-guard the Taxpayer’s hard-earned money! At best this apathetic Council
allowed incompetency or worse the distinct possibility of criminal activity. Silence is consent!